Just one of the genius products launched today over at thinkgeek. Shame there’s something fishy about it really.
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For the keen photographers out there, this article from the BBC has some useful information on when it is legal / not legal to take a picture in a public place (it would appear to be always legal) and when a member of the police can confiscate or ask you to delete an image (when they have a court order). I can’t help but think back to the concert in St. Helen’s last year where the band’s manager told the security staff “No more pictures” about 5 minutes into Echo and the Bunnymen’s set in the middle of St. Helen’s, leaving them the task of pointing at people with cameras and mouthing “No photos”. It worked fine for the front three rows. Its one thing to know your rights – its another thing to be able to enforce them in the face of an angry bouncer or policeman. Link to this post! Those of us in Casa Spinneyhead are already aware of the lethal potential in a bowl of chilli, especially if its been made by Alex. To date though, none of his have been declared a bioterror hazard. Although that could just be because the officials haven’t yet found the stash in the freezer. Link to this post! With several members of Team Spinneyhead either currently in the States or about to fly over there, it seems only fair to warn them that its currently tornado season. Sadly it’s only on this side of the pond though. Link to this post! I realise that this post may attract the ire of any motorists, but I personally feel that these people are complete idiots and thoroughly deserved to lose their case. Anyone caught on a speed camera doing 47mph in a 30 zone is clearly breaking the law. Given that these days speed cameras are only put up in accident blackspots, they were being reckless too. Finally, given that every camera is well signed beforehand, painted bright yellow, and has little white lines on the road, they were probably too blind to be able to see where they were driving anyway. I agree that not every speed limit is appropriate for the road its on all the time – for instance, I think faster speed limits could be introduced around schools out of term term, and in the evenings. However, there is a law, and like it or not, people should obey it or at least not be quite so blatant about breaking it. I reserve the right to change my opinions if I ever get caught speeding. Link to this post! Combining in one place three of the things Spinneyhead and Ian in particular is passionate amount, namely sheep, geeks and artwork, I present the electric sheep screensaver. Link to this post! (for cross posting to HowToSaveTheWorldForFree) Manchester City Council have some statistics on waste this Christmas, plus some ideas on how to cut it down (mostly by carefully choosing what to buy, which might be a little late for most of you) and some guidance on what can be recycled. If you live in Manchester, the link to the recycling centres around Manchester and what each one accepts is also useful. (Title taken from Green Christmas by Barenaked Ladies) Link to this post! Because Ian wasn’t here to enjoy them, we thought it only fair to assess each cheese of the several cheeses we’ve sampled here today and post the results here so that he can see what he was missing. We’ve rated each one on the classic criteria of Damage, Style, Control and Agression. The results are:
The clear favourite was the Sticky Toffee Pudding cheese, probably closely followed by the Italian thoroughbred Gorgonzola which was loved by anyone brave enough to try it. On the non-cheese front, the brownie was voted product least likely to survive until Ian’s return. Link to this post! If you’re old enough to remember and want to replay this classic game, you can download a copy from the site. If you’re too young or not geeky enough, it was a forerunner to Worms and many other similar games in the genre. If you do download it and find it a bit fast, try running it via DosBox, an Open Source PC emulator. Link to this post! On the one hand, the Government is telling us that we’re all living too long and that we won’t be able to get our pensions. This would obviously cease to be a problem if either there was a mass injection of money into the system, or if people had the decency to die younger, allowing the survivors to cash in. On the other hand, when approximately 1 in 4 Britons are helpfully eating themselves into an early grave and several million others are doing their bit by smoking, the Government is doing all it can to persuade them not to. Am I the only person to spot the irony? Link to this post! UK readers of this blog may have caught the news item yesterday about the postman suspended for advising residents on his walk how to opt out of receiving junk mail. The BBC News item here has information on the story, plus details on how you can opt out yourself. Note: you will have to register with two services, Royal Mail Opt-Outs, and the Mail Preference Service. The article I caught on the radio stated that the postman had told people to write direct to their local sorting office. You may also want to consider registering with the Telephone Preference Service and the Fax Preference Service. Now if only there was a “Door to Door Salesman Preference Service” – it would stop things like this… Link to this post! If you’ve missed the TV adverts recently, you may be unware that Bez has picked his favorite songs from the Madchester era and released them as a double album. The music itself is a great selection and the only thing stopping me from buying it is that I have most of the tracks already on other albums or compilations. What’s currently amusing me though is the sheer number of tracks on the album which in one form or another are about drugs or are heavily associated with the drugs scene! Link to this post! Spinneyhead originally started as a way to point out and bookmark cool stuff on the web. With this in mind, here is one of the best websites I’ve seen in ages. Link to this post! Every year, at this time, England starts to suffer from too much rain, which for some reason always leads inexplicably to water shortages and hosepipe bans. Fortunately, plumbers in Norway have come up with a solution. Link to this post! |
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